Hi Folks, My colleague, Robert Luhn, wrote a piece for NCSE's blog on recently attending ESA a few weeks ago in Sacramento. He was rather taken by the number of researchers (undergraduates on up to professors) whose work intersected climate change, but had not taken a formal class on the topic nor did they plan on necessarily teaching it if/when they went on to teach. You can see his piece here: http://ncse.com/blog/2014/08/climate-schlimate-0015839, but I thought it might start an interesting discussion here as well as to whether students actually need a formal course on climate change, whether people feel like this topic is covered elsewhere in great enough detail or if by researching it there isn't necessarily a need for a formal course.
Minda -- Minda Berbeco, PhD Programs and Policy Director National Center for Science Education 420 40th Street, Suite 2 Oakland, CA 94609-2509 Phone: 510.601.7203 or 800-290-6006 Fax: 510-601-7204 http://ncse.com/climate http://ncse.com/blog Tweeting as @MindaBerbeco Visiting Scholar University of California Museum of Paleontology 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building Berkeley, CA 94720-4780 http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/ <http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/index.php>
